The Danbury Savings Bank of Connecticut is to be known from today as the Ives bank, after the town’s most famous son.
The bank was founded in 1849 by George Ives, grandfather of the composer, who ran it from the family home. It inculcated a gift for business in the composer, who went on to found the New York insurance agency Ives & Myrick.
The Charles Ives home is now owned by the Danbury Museum and Historical Society.
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